Felix The Reaper reviews

This game has everything to be great -- a sardonic plot with an extremely likeable main character, a very twisted sense of humor, and puzzles which are quite hard and original in their design. Even Sir Patrick Stewart lends his voice to the narration. But somehow, it feels grindy. While the puzzles are somewhat original, you see almost all their mechanics in the first few levels. And then most of them consist in moving barrels step by step across the environments to create shadows, which isn't that much fun. And then if you really want to get all "stars", you have to redo the level but now without making mistakes, and very fast and efficiently. It does not help that the interface is quite fiddly and you often end up clicking in the wrong places (by the way, mouse was much better than a controller for me). But I am being too harsh -- on the other hand, the game has an in-game hint system which I did use for the last harder puzzles. And some of them are very clever -- many times I had the "this is impossible!" feeling, only to have that "a-ha!" moment later when figuring out what could be done. Anyway, it was an interesting game, it just should flow better (though honestly I do not know how this could be done with this game concept). Score: 62/100.